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, r THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 7, 1913.
j 14 , . , .. , 'Mr-
I
I HOLDS HEART HE
The Rev. P. A. Simpkin Dis
cusses Vital Problem of
Educational Life.
In a sermon aL Phillips Congregational
church yesterday morning, which was at
tended by many eastern visitors here for
the convention, the Rev. Peter A'. Simp
kin preached upon the theme, "Education
and the Heart."
The Rev. Mr. Simpkin took as his text
the assertion of the old proverb which,
speaking of the heart, says, "For out of
it are the issues of life," saying in part:
Our city is honored by the meeting
here of the most Important gathering
of American educators that convenes
in this year.
The representatives of that splendid
body of men and women whose life Is
given in rich and fruitful service to
the children of the republic -will In
f the next few days spend their energies
In discussing the problems, rationale
and technical questions of their great
profession.
In organized society there is no force
which is potentially holier or more
fruitful than theirs, save that prophet
hood of the eternal which rests in Hie
church Catholic of Jesus Christ.
Foundation of Liberty.
Liberty and progress, the continu
ance of the institutions that enrich
the common life of modern civiliza
tion are in major measure dependent
upon the forces which education en
genders. Man in the realm of his per
sonality, as in the relationships to so
ciety which become closer, in the du
ties that become more complex, with
the passing days, is dependent on the
mental awakening and vision that are
possible only by the process educa
tional. It. Is of little moment what form
education takes, whether it come in
the quiet of the lone place and by the
flicker of a pine knot, where a Lin
coln breaks the walls of his soul with
eager hands to open windows upon
yesterday, today, tomorrow, or a "Wil
son, in the classic culture of a modern
institution finds the same result; the
important thing Is the awakening to
life and service, to the power to
think, analyze, compare, thereafter
moving to intelligent and altruistic ac
tion. Admiration for the marvelous ma
chinery of our school system is com
monplace; esteem for the intelligent
devotion of the great army of men
and women busied in molding and de
veloping our American youth is in
nate, pride in that wide diffusion of
power by education, that has made the
level of common Intelligence the high
est known to any people of the age, is
proveribai throughout the -world.
Waste Is Problem.
One holds a sympathetic attitude to
ward the task the educator faces just
now in the emerging problems of the
profession. It Is impossible to lie in
different to the time wastage of our
present system consuming In the pre
paratory process so large a segment of
life's little circle Mere economics
will compel nn adjustment and solu
tion of the difficulty of selecting from
the vast store of facts the necessary
measure. The question of vocational,
manual and definitely classified sec
tions that -will give larger equipment
and completer preparation for life's
work Is of keen" Interest to the socie
ty educators serve. Few, If any,
things included In the curricula of the
Ht-hools are valueless to the unfolding
soul moving toward professional life.
Many are of questionable value for
the average student.
One Is willing to leave to the spe
cialists of the school and the demon
stration of experience these technical
questions.
Of such vital import to a free peo
ple, now truly entering Industrially
Into the world's market where hither
to we have been in the main food
purveyors, Is the highest and -widest
mental and manual equipment of our
children that not costs but results are
vital. In the new day of social and
political life whose morning has bro
ken the vital thing is not budgets, but
the Impartatlon of that Illumination
in which the child shall see clearly
the dominant facts of yesterday and
today, learn to think straight, ho that
neither demagoguoa nor reactionary
shall Bweep him from a quiet. Intelli
gent analysis and vision such as have
kept alive the virile Americanism that
under God has made the nation's glo
ry the world's imperial democracy.
But one needs to lift a voice in
this time when we sense the large
power inherent in true education to
fit life for large service In the mate
rial order and the academy of the
mind, speaking the peril that lies In
the neglect of the spiritual culture.
,,?mport 18 not Eet by te dicta
of rellgloiiaries or a narrow vision
of ecclesiasticlsm. It Is fixed in that
organization of life by the eternal
that sec: man finally as more than a
citizen, more than an Integer In the
Industrial and economic sum of the
world.
Science and experience are al one
r
in writing Q. E. D. under the asser
tion of God's book, that out of Uhe
heart arc the issues of life. The
vanity of the Imagination that fancies
the beauty or culture of any past
day is tho goal to which we move Is
writ In sand-drifted Egypt "id Baby
lon, in .passion-broken Greece and
Rome.
Pur task Is not the carving of
beautiful marbles, but the develop
ment of the beauty Ideal of soul In
men and women. For us, it is not
the filling of art galleries with can
vases, but the making of the walls
of life's house beautiful wltih truth
and the things of purity, not the
pricking oratorio, sonata, or sym
phony, but the setting in tune the
strings, of the soul's harp, "that m in el
and soul according well, may make
one music as before, but vaster."
Tf life Is ordered from the high
scat of moral power, it may be left
by ns with confidence to fruiting in
loftier forms of beauty by every
method of expression, forms that
shall not alone- supersede the beau
ty of any spent culture, but shall
answer Ills dream to which we move
with such laggard feet.
Culture Not Enough.
Neither culture nor brilliance has
the power preservative, tho power of
realization. The aesthetic sense is
powerless before life's real probloms.
Artistic power, mental acumen or
brilliance In any form holds not the
secret of fulfillment, else God were
a cruel taskmaster. All life's final
worth to the -world is in the measure
of one's heart comprehensions and
convictions.
The something back of skill of fin
ger, color-sense, harmony, mental
alertness and power that puts the
value into work and life is the spir
itual apprehension, and the value is
as the measure of Its possession.
The same skill can paint a Christ or
an erotic Venus. The same mastery
of harmony can write the majestic
strains that answer songs of angels
or debase Itself In the Idiotic and
passionate syncopations of the low
est music Tho same mental power
can spin "The Passing of the Third
Floor Back," "Old Mortality," or
produce the noisome page of a Zola.
The same executive ability may con
duct business or politics so as to
make elti:er a blessing or curse to
society.
Heart Is the Ruler.
What is the power that determines
either? Its secret is not Imparted in
the school of the secular programme
alone. Not In the brain or the imag
ination lies the power that puts the
moral or tho immoral value into life.
It is of the great, deep, controlling
willed purpose of the heart, whose
power will be measured by the re
ligious vision and life.
Magnifying all that tbe school can
impart of fitting for duty as a citi
zen of tho world in every channel of
service, one must see that finally
it Is in character there lies the power
determinlst for life.
Will and emotion. Ideal and af
fection are fixed absolutely in the
religious conviction of the life, and
their presence Is that which lends
power abiding to the contribution of
service a life can make to the world.
Has your heart thrilled to the story
from Gettysburg this week, whore
Blue and Gray have emphasized the
unity and soverelgntv of the repub
lic? Why? Is it not that out of the
heart of patriots, thrilling to duty
and love of country, to the vision of
humanity and the call of God men
out of the heart found the issue of
life arid realized it in crimson sacri
fice, love-born, sanctioned of religious
faith?
Secret of Growth.
Aye, and all the things that touch
life with pity, sacrifice and devo
tion are issues of the lieart And If
America Is to build enduringly on the
foundation of our glorious yesterday,
our splendid today, it will be alono
an we answer the educator's splendid
culture of hand and brain with a cul
ture of the heart in the broadest and
deepest development of the religious
Instinct.
One prays and long3 that tho power
of the love supremo the Nazarene haa
revealed and exemplified to the world,
that has been Imitated In the pas
sionate -religious patriotism whose
record is the imperitfhably glorious
heritage of our America may be im
parted to the generation that holds
that morrow In its young heart, and
that as tho American moves to In
dustrial and material mastery of tho
business of the world, he may most
of all be the minister of God in that
character and truth whose exempli
fication In common life will make
the saving Chrlathood of tho latest
ENTERTAINS KANSAS
DELEGATES TO N. E. A.
A party of prominent educators. In
cluding the leading members of the Kan
sas delegation to the N. E. A were tho
guests of Mr, and Mrs. Glenn 'Miller at
dinner In the Alta club last evening. In
cluded In the party wore Philander P.
Claxton, United States commissioner of
education: Dr. Frank A. Fltzpatrick of
Boston, Governor E. W. Hoke of 'Kan
sas. D. T. Hackney of Wellington, Kan.,
Mrs. J. M. Lewis of Kinsley, Kan., Presi
dent Thomas W. Butcher of tho Kansas
State Normal school. Superintendent D.
H. Chrlstcnsen of Salt Lake, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Marcey, Miss Zeta Hammer,
the only Salt Lake student at the Uni
versity of Kansas, and Professor Voght.
assistant United States commissioner of
education
' CHURCH 10 SCHOOL "
The Rev. Bowerman Delivers
Special N. E. A. Sermons
at Baptist Church.
Education day was observed by the Tm-
manuel Baptist church at both morning
and evening services, the Rev. Dr. L. S.
Bowerman speaking upon "The Two Bul
warks of American Liberty, the Free
Church and the Free School." in the morn
ing, and "The Child That Is to Be Leader
and Hero" in the evening, dealing In the
evening with the value of preparation for
life's work, using as examples Moses and
Paul.
In the morning Dr. Bowerman used as
a text, "Take heed to thyself and to thy
teaching." He said in part:
We extend a royal welcome to tho
National Education association. We
welcome the teachers because of what
they are and also because of the great
service they are rendering our 3'outh
and our country. We trust that the
visit to our city and state will be far
more than was anticipated and the
vacation remembered for many years
as a most happy one.
TJiere has always been the school
and the place of worship. The free
church and the free school are, how
ever, comparatively modern. Educa
tion was largely the function of the
Tellgious system through the priest
hood. The systems lived for them
selves, and not for the great mass of
mankind that lay in darkness. In the
days of Jesus and the early church
there was tho promise of a better day:
but church and state became one and
tne darkness and superstition of the
middle ages followed. The reforma
tion wrought for uplift; but few of tljp
reformers were believers in the free
church and general education of the
masses. That was far in advance of
their day.
No body of men can do the think
ing for another body. No bodv of
men can claim and exercise authority
, over others as by divine right, but
the Inevitable abuses of power will
creep in and the leaders forget tho
God they profess to serve.
In the land of an open bible and by
tho side of the free church, the free
school or our system of general edu
cation by taxation grew.
It Is not too much to say that our
greatness as a nation Is due to these
two great factors, The wonderful as
similation of the foreign population
coming by tho millions to our shore
and at times at the rate of a million
a year, has been and is possible only
because of the great balancing power
of our public schools. A generation or
two in the schools and the prejudices
and customs of the centuries arc for
gotten and the great spirit of liberty
has been breathed In. Nothing Is do
ing more for the removing of the walls
of separation than the schools. The
free church and the free schools make
possible the freedom of the press and
give to us tho boon of free speech.
OH. CUM SPEAKS
1 THE TKltGLE
(Continued from Pago One.)
er be. It Is the human being that
counts, and not runk, nor wealth,
nor political, religious, Industrial or
financial preferment. The teacher
should be a reader of great books.
You can divide all teachers Into
two classes the man of clay and the
man who has had the breath of life
breathed into him. There are first
hand and second-hand teachers
tea.cJhers who bring out some new
thought, and teachers who overwork
the thoughts of others. The teach
er should have some originality and
assert himself. He should not go
about with a perpetual apology for
himself in his countenance, as if he
were imposing upon others by
breathing.
The school teacher should bring
himself into contact with art. mu
sic, painting and sculpture. He
should hear good music in every
form in the orchestra, the choir, the
soloist. Music is like the great tidal
wave of the ocean. As compared with
it mere speech is the ripple on the
sea.
You can't teach what you do not
know. The student at school most
ly looks upward to the tasks he lias
before him In preparation for his
examinations, thanking the Lord
when tho examinations are over.
The 'things you would teach you
must first know, looking from above
downward. We should know the
child, because after all It is the chil
dren we teach and not subject mat
ter. Nobody compels you to be a teach
er. Unless we are willing to give all
our lives and beings for the sake of
the child, for the sake of the home,
and for the sake of the nation, let
us quit.
Anton H. Lund Presides.
President Anton H. Lund conducted
the services, and President Charles W.
Penrose Introduced Dr. Claxton, speak
ing in part as follows:
On behalf of the first presidency
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat
ter Day Saints. I extend a welcome
to all delegates of the N. E. A. We
welcome all our visitors and hope
they will spend their time here pro
fitably and carry away with them
knowledge of value. We are friends
of education, the pioneers having
brought some of It with them across
the plains In 1S47. In some of our
settlements in the early days the
first buildings erected were school
houses, which were also used for
public worship. We believe In con
tinued education that through the
endless course of eternity we shall .
progress In education.
Wo welcome tho truth from what
ever source It may come, and It gives
me great pleasure to know that we
have as the speaker this afternoon
Dr. P. P. Claxton, commissioner of
education of the United States.
Levi Edgar Youncr uttered the Invoca
tion, and James ID. Talmage gave the
benediction. The musical programme
Included "America." by the choir and
audience; the anthem, "From Afar,
Gracious Lord. Thou Hast Gathered Thy
Flock." by the choir; "O Give Me Back
my Prophet Dear," by the Schubert
quartette, consisting of James Moncarr,
Hyrum P. Christiansen, David Burt and
Waltor S. Lamoreaux; anthem, "Let the
Mountains Shout for Joy," by the choir;
and the "Doxology" by the choir and
audience.
j TODAY'S N. E. A. PROGRAMME j
9:30 o'clock, First 'Church of Christ, Scientist
1 Department of kindergarten education. , (
I 9:30 o'clock, First Methodist Episcopal church i
Department of manual training ami art education. '
9:30 o'clock, Elks club
Department of business education.
9:30 o'clock, Unity hall.
( Library department. ' ' i
I 9:30 o'clock, First Prosbytorian church
Joint session of department of rural and agricultural education, with
s Naturo Study society, and, the School Garden Association of Amer-
I iea, 1
I 9;30 o'clock a. m., Barratt hall ' i
Boport of tho joint, 3STational Council of Education committee on health ?
S problems in education. Discussion.
10:30 o'clock, Lion house
I N. E. A. board of directors in annual meeting, c
I 1:30 o'clock, room (Ml, Hotol Utah I
Annual meeting of committee on International Council of Education.
) 2 o'clock, tabernacle ,
s General session, NT. E, A., Carroll G. Pearse, formor president N. E. A., $
I and superintendent of schools, Milwaukee, Wis., presiding. I
I 4 o'clock
5 Reception to library department at home of Miss Esther Nelson, 761
S Sixth avenue, to which mcmbors of the department arc invited. S
s 5:30 o'clock, at various stato headquarters $
Meetings of state delegates to nominate candidates for appointment on t
the oonnnittee "of nominations. Utah and the states whose meet- $
ing places havo not been designated, will meet at appoiutcd places I
I in the tabernacle, . J
1 8 o'clock, tabernacle I
i Complimentary concert in honor of visiting delegates, given under the S
auspices of tho Utah State association.
8 o'clock, Commercial club 5
i Lecture, "Salt Lake and Its Environs," by II. IT. Kayos. i
TEACHERS URGED TO
I LIBERTY CAUSE
Prominent Educators Hear
the Rev. Elmer I. Goshen
Advocate New Freedom.
"The Story of the Cost of "Liberty" was
the -subject of a special sermon delivered
yesterday morning' at the First Congrega
tional church in honor of the National
Education association delegates by the
Rev. Elmer I. Goshen The church was
crowded, special seats being provided for
President E. T. Falrchlld, Secretary D. W.
Springer and members of their special vis
iting party. So strong was the sermon
that the audience several times broke out
In prolonged applause.
The minister painted a picture of the
rise from the brute world and the differ
ent steps toward liberty that have been
tuken. Egypt, he said, was a contributor
lowa I'd the cause of liberty until she shut
herself off from the other nations and re
fused to advance: Greece with the great
est thinkers of history, wrote another
chapter in the cost of liberty when she
fell becauso she permitted the few to rule,
and Rome was destroyed by the barba
rians after she had attempted to enslave
the entire world. Giving other nations as
examples of the cost of liberty, Dr. Goshen
came down to the present time and dis
cussed the modern cost of liberty. He
said:
We think we are free and we teach
our children that the law of supply
and demand controls the prices of
foodstuffs. Yet we know that at the
crossroads of every American city of
any size Is a crowd of gamblers who
decide in advance what prices shall
be paid for the food of the masses. I
long for the day of real freedom, when
we shall enact a mighty law that will
tell the world that here In America to
gamble In foodstuffs Is a crime.
We think we are free, apd right here
in Utah we are in the midst of 100
miles of coal lands, where there Is
enough coal to warm everybody. There
Is one other mighty law that we
should have. This would tell the
world that the industries In the
United States are for the people and
not for the few. We call ourselves a
free people, and tomorrow night 2,
000.000 child slaves, with muddled
minds and aching backs, will go forth
from the factories. In a country of
real freedom every child would have
Its inalienable rights sunshine, flow
ers, fields and the natural growth of
childhood.
This week Is education week In
Utah. Wo arc proud to entertain the
teachers of America, the teachers who
have it in their "hands to write a great
chapter In the story of the cost of
liberty. Let us dare to say to these
teachers that the school, the church
, or the state that Is founded upon any
thing but liberty Is bound to perish.
We boast today of our public
schools, and well may we boast, for
they put upon equal footing the child
of the boulevard and the child of the
slum They throw open arms to the
boy who comes with the blue blood of
aristocracy In his veins, and to the
one who comes with the better and
unrecognized blood of the artisan.
The public school Is the one place
where the democracy of merit out
shines the aristocracy of pull. But let
us all remember that this school has
been founded and preserved by those
who have believed In liberty and de
mocracy. Let us remember that If
this school Is touched by the partisan
hands of favoritism, that in that hour
its virtue is gone.
Let us dare to say to a great na
tional convention of teachers, guard
well your liberties.
Decide your questions in the open,
and ostracise any man who dares to
.seek to devide them In tho cloak
room.
Elect your officers because of fitness
and because of ability, and not be
cause they suit the programme of the
designing few.
For every dollar Intrusted and for
every responsibility imposed, demand
account in open session. Let no fa
vored few rule you or decide your poli
cies; remember that you are a de
mocracy, and that the divine right of
kings Is dead. Let no policy be pur
sued that will give any one the right
to say that the N. E. A. Is an organi
zation where pull and place and dollar
Is more powerful than ability and In
tegrity and liberty.
Remember that you have a mighty
chapter to write in the atory of the
"Cost of Liberty."
Buckley Funeral Today.
Funeral services for J, X. Buckley, who
was found dead In his bed at the Lin
coln house last week, will be held at 3
o'clock Uhls afternoon at the Larkln-Hull
funeral chapel. Burial will be In ML
Olivet cemetery. The body may be viewed
f.rom 11 until 2 o'clock today at the fun
eral parlors.
Returns With Brido.
"Lester 12. Remmers, for the last year
local representative of the Samuel E.
Cupples Wooden Ware company of St.
Louis, has returned from a two weeks'
visit In St. Louis with a bride, formerly
Miss EdlVh. Maschmcler of St. Louis, Mr.
and Mra, Rummers will reside al the
Meredith apartments. ,A
PEACE MOVEMENT IS
sni BIG GAINS
Mrs. Fannie Andrews Makes
Interesting Report for
American Peace League.
That a new movement, started by tho
history committee of the American
School Peace league to teach the school
children on a different plan than hereto
fore used, has gained rapid headway dur
ing the last year. Is stated In the annual
report of the national secretary of the
league. Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews of
Boston. Under the leadership of Wilbur
F. Cordy, chairman, the committee has
held two meetings this year, one at Phil
adelphia, February 21, and another May
IS and 20 in New York city. In line
with the other plans of the league to pro
mote International peace, this movement
endeavors to have less knowledge of war
and more knowledge of the people of the
different nations and their educational
and moral advancement. The complete re
port, of the secretary will be read at the
annual meeting of the American School
Peace league to be held Thursday after
noon, at 2:30 o'clock in the tabernacle.
Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews arrived from
Boston yesterday and immediately started
her work by opening headquarters in the
Motel Utah. With her she brought tons
of peace literature, which will be distrib
uted to visitors, and Mrs. Andrews ex
tends a cordial Invitation to all to visit
her headquarters. Although she will not
read ner annual report until Thursday
she last night gave The Tribune a copy
for advance publication. .
"The observance of Peace day this year
surpassed that of last and gives promise
of a continued Increase in the number
of schools which are adding Peace day to
their list of special days to be observed."
says the report. "The secretary of the
league compiled the second Peace 'lay
bulletin at the request of the United
States commissioner of education. Count
ing the bulletins distributed by the Unit
ed States, bureau of education, the Ameri
can School Peace league, the New York
Peace society, the World Peace founda
tion and private citizens interested in
the movement, about 65,000 were distrib
uted this year."
Since the. last annual meeting. five
more states Rhode Island, Kansas,
Utah, Oregon and Connecticut have or
ganized branches, and the president has
organized nineteen high school branches,
says the report
The oratorical contest, which is . the
feature of the meeting Thursday after
noon, will be the fourth of Its kind which
has been held. Four Utah academic stu
dents Charles Stewart. Collegiate insti
tute. Salt Lake; James White, Salt Lake
high school: Miss Algle Eggertson, Brig
ham Young university at Provo, and
Frank B. Smith of Ogden high school
will contest for the gold medal offered
by the league. The subject will be, "Re
solved, That all International disputes
should be settled by arbitration." Tho
(irst of these high school oratorical con
tests was held in 1910 at Boston, repre
sentatives of the city high schools and
academies taking part. The William
Howard Taft debate medal was given.
The contest was held In San Francisco
In 1011. and last year in Chicago, This
year is the first time that the schools of
an entire state have boen represented.
The vice presidents and counselors of
the league are especially well represented
at the convention, about half of them
being present. The vice presidents who
have already arrived are Philander C.
Claxton, Washington, D. C. ; J. II. Baker,
Boulder, Colo,; K T. Falrchlld. Durham.
Is. H. ; James M Greenwood, Kansas
City; Dr. S. C. Mitchell. Columbia, S.
C: Miss Ellen C. Sabln, Milwaukee: Jo
seph Swain. Swarthmore. Pa.; E. C. Wnr
riner, Saginaw, Mich.; Frank B. Cooper,
Seattle, and L,awton B. Evans, Au
gusta, Gn.
1
PIONEER OF '47 DIES
AT AGE OF 91 YEARS
William K. Rice of Ocnterville Came
to Utah With Second Company;
Leaves 300 Descendants.
William K. Rice. 91 years of age, a
Utah pioneer of 1817. died last night at
tho home of his daughter, Mrs. Olive Dun
can at Contervllle of general debility. Air.
Rice lived the greater part of his life in
Utah, near Salt Lake City, and was well
known. He Is survived by thirteen chil
dren and has more than .100 descendants.
Mr. Rice was born In Manchester, N.
Y. While he was yet a child, his family
moved to Ann Arbor, Mich. He went
from Ann Arbor to Navoo, III., coming
from there to Utah with the second com
pany of pioneers, Tie reached Salt Lake
valley, September 13, 1817, and has since
lived here.
FunoraJ services will be held at 4
o'clock next Thursday afternoon at. the
Fannlnsrton ward chapel. Burial will be
In the Farmington cemetery.
Kofford Funeral Today.
The funeral of Carrie Kofford will be
held at 2 o'clock thl. afternoon from the
residence. G2C East Eighth South street.
Burial will be in the City cemetery.
I10ISIOIEfi ,
1 SCHOOL PROBRE
i
B. H. Roberts Recounts E U
Work of Latter-day Sail .
in Education.
h
Before an audience of approxim .
5500 persons in the tabernacle last
B. IT. Roberts delivered an inter
address on "Mormonism and Educal
prefacing his talk by saying that hj
sumed that a large number of the'
gregatlon consisted of visitors whoj
here to attend the N. E. A. convS
He said also that while Salt hakor.
Utah had -been honored with nianyj
ventions. neither was ever more ho
than when the educators made;
Lake their convention city for the
1913. In part, Mr. Roberts said:
Utah's educational history b(
before our first colony arrived lnfj
valley. It began with the last c
ference that our church held In N
voo, the beautiful, upon tho bankj
the great Mississippi river, oil,
eve of the departure of the sa
from that city.
Schools in Camp.
When our people arrived onj
Missouri frontier a circular tr
the subject of education 11
Issued In December, 1S46. J
which the wisdom and necessity;
establishing schools for the edu
Hon of the children was set foi
Several such schools were establla
' In winter quarters on the pres
site of Florence, Neb.
Thus, in our exile, we did not fi
fer the cause of education to '
Brigham Young advised that -v
saints obtain books and chd
upon historical, philosophical j
I scientific subjects, and to ga
er up writings of all descrlptli
for the education of children and 0
er members of the church. So ms
books were brought across the pld
that in 1S50 the frontier town of
Lake City was able to open its fl
reading room and library. Tl
brought In a printing press and ,d
accumulated objects of interest vi
which to open a museum. "i
Our one colony which w
to the Pacific coast by ship arot
Cape Horn took a printing press a
a large number of books on histo
mathematics, astronomy, phlloso
and other sciences. The first p
odlcal printed in San Francisco :v
published by a Mormon elder, 1
collection of books carried th
formed the first English library T
tabllshcd in San Francisco. f,
In the provisional state of D
eret we had our educational sysU
It was under this provisional save
ment In 1S50 that the University
Deseret was Incorporated. Howei)
It collapsed in about two years on
count of lack of means. r
Captain Stansbury of the topogra
leal engineer corps, sent out by V
United States government to a
vcy the Great Salt lake, lived anU
our people for more than a year
his report he said that liberal apji
pria lions of land and money had t
made for the university; that a r
mal school was already In operatl
and that school houses had been b
In many districts for tho aclvan
ment of education among the peo;
The school system of the prj
slonal siate of Deseret was com
ucd. with some modifications and'J
provements, by the territorial gove
ment established hero by congri
There was gradually developed aV
acceptable public school system wn
In the vcar 1S77 had grown so t
$oGS,0S4 In school property was Hi
or about SIS per capita a figure;
advance of most of the older st
and territories in the country. 3
average daily attendanco was a
high. ' Up to 1S77 tho population
Utah was practically all Mormon. J
After about fifteen years of exi
once the University of Deseret.
pran to revive and develop on "ni
lined and true principles. Althougrri'
grade of the Institution might be ct
sldorcd low. more was accompllBj
than in many institutions more R
tcntlous and moro expensive to s
dents This latter tribute Is palaj
H. II. Bancroft, Urn historian. 5
Struggle Was Hard. J
Our non-Mormon population b
eaual honor In respect of deyolopm
nf our school system. Indeed, we n
have heroine ullra-conservativc. j
that time we had not learned the
vantage of binding for public I
provements. There was a change
policy In our later years of sen.
development. In which our non-M.'
mon friends have equal share wit";
for credit. , . . V
The church of Jesus Christ of
ter-day Saints has a school y
comprising two unlvers tics, ono c
leue. nineteen academies and n
s-'mlnarloK scattered through
Canada, Mexico. Idaho. Arizona.
mlng and Colorado. These the 1
mon n-onle support b- i-ontrlbutK
In uddltion to doing their share
maintaining the public scHO
through the payment of taxes. 'I